Masdar City UAE to Ban Cars, Welcome Pod People (video)

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On-track to be completed by 2020 in the United Arab Emirates, the Masdar City project’s developers aim to do nothing less than create a 100% carbon-neutral luxury village which – they hope – will change the international image of an entire nation, push the envelope of renewable energy technology, and represent the current state-of-the-art in [...]

An Electric Highway Inspired by the Superbus

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Writing about the maybe-future means writing about a lot of concepts that have no basis in reality. Sometimes it means coming up with ideas of my own. What about an all-electric highway made for fast EVs like the Superbus? Maybe it is just the spring air talking, or maybe I caught a whiff of whatever [...]

“Breaking” News: Nissan Leaf Owners Report Starting Problems

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Nissan is reporting that a significant number of new Nissan Leaf owners are having difficulty re-starting their cars once they’ve been shut down.  Nissan spokesperson Toshitake Inoshita told Reuters that the starting problems have been traced as far back as the car’s HVAC systems, but the exact cause of the problem remains unknown. When asked [...]

Will Beijing Become the EV Capital of the World?

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Overcrowding is a huge problem in Beijing, to the point where new car registration comes down to a lottery system…unless you purchase a plug-in or electric vehicle. Is Beijing poised to become the electric car capital of the world? Bertel Schmitt writing for The Truth About Cars certainly seems to think so, and not without good [...]

Video: Man Beats Bus on Big Wheel

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Homer Simpson once said “Public transportation is for suckers,” and after watching this video of a New Yorker beating a bus in a one-mile race from 10th avenue to Madison avenue by two minutes. How can we fix that? Mark Malkoff, “amateur daredevil” and professional comedian (perhaps best known for living in an Ikea for [...]

CicLAvia | Los Angeles Escapes Its Cages For A Day of Biking

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CicLAvia proves that cycling is breaking into the mainstream. As more and more Angelenos discover the joy of cycling, perhaps more will break free of their steel cages and join Mayor Villaraigosa in riding to work. In this article are included video footage from the first two CicLAvias and an interview with one of LA’s cycling vanguard…

Green Speed: South Pole Record Runner is Clean and Mean

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The Bremach TRex is big, tough, and indisputably awesome … but what if you wanted a bad*** green machine that was capable of tackling some of the rough at high speed?  If that were you (you lunatic!) you’d want to take a long, hard look at the truck shown here.  So mean and so green [...]

Awesomesauce Saturday: Italian EV Truck Puts U.S. Pickups to Shame

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We love trucks here in America (guilty), so convincing people to move away from petrol-powered pickups will be difficult. If we only had more mainstream options like the Bremech T-Rex, an EV work truck that puts most pickups to shame. Bremech, based out of Italy, already offers a hybrid version of its T-Rex work truck, [...]